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...Soviets in the 1980s, bin Laden had a front-row seat at an astonishing and empowering development: the defeat of a superpower by a gaggle of makeshift militias. Though the U.S., with billions of dollars in aid, helped the militias in their triumph, bin Laden soon turned on their benefactor. When U.S. troops in 1990 arrived in his sacred Saudi homeland to fight Saddam Hussein, bin Laden considered their infidel presence a desecration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthplace. He was inspired to take on a second superpower, and he was funded to do so: by a fortune inherited from...
...Like the overwhelming majority of South Africans infected with HIV, Nkosi's family was unable to afford the antiretroviral drugs commonly used to treat the disease in the developed world. An American benefactor began paying for such treatments last June, but physicians believe that by then it may have already been too late to save Nkosi. But most South African AIDS patients are so poor that their only hope of survival is free access to treatment drugs through the public health system. And Nkosi himself might have eluded his fate had his mother had access, during pregnancy...
...gets ripped off when it goes traveling - can't get a break. Since 1969, Japan's government has spent $80 billion in assistance on its Asian neighbors. It is Indonesia's third-largest donor, behind the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. It is India's largest bilateral benefactor. The roads, sewers and airport runways clearly benefit the countries - from China to Cambodia - where they are built, though the money too often has been tied to projects that go to big Japanese construction companies - the right hand paying the left. Still, says Lu Guangye, a senior research fellow with...
Greg A. Carr, formerly chair of Prodigy Internet, and the main benefactor behind Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, said he hopes to further his commitment to human rights through the funding of this new theater...
Greg A. Carr, formerly chair of Prodigy Internet, and the main benefactor behind Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights, said he hopes to further his commitment to human rights through the funding of this new theater...